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Council Vice-Chair Yuki Lei K. Sugimura today thanked Hawaii’s congressional delegation for its efforts to secure federal tax relief for qualified disaster survivors, such as those impacted by the August 2023 wildfires in Lahaina and Upcountry Maui, and is urging President Donald Trump to sign the legislation into law.

With President Trump heading to Beijing to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Hawaiʻi 2nd District Rep. Jill Tokuda is leading a bipartisan congressional effort to make clear that US support for Taiwan is not up for negotiation.

Hawai‘i Rep. David Tarnas said he is hopeful after hearing about Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s order to the US Department of Justice and the Drug Enforcement Administration to reclassify medical-grade cannabis as a less dangerous drug.

The amici states argue that a functioning NLRB is necessary for the enforcement of labor laws across the United States. There are currently 130 cases of unfair labor practices pending in Hawai‘i. 

Congress has confirmed Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States following a violent day at the nation’s Capitol in which protestors breached the building.

Sen. Schatz said the letter was sent as the COVID-19 pandemic drags on and “millions of households are facing impossible choices between paying the rent or mortgage, or purchasing food or medicine.”

FEMA announced that federal disaster assistance has been made available to the state of Hawaii to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by Hurricane Douglas from July 23, 2020 and continuing. US Senator Mazie Hirono said that while the funding unlocks important resources, she continued to encourage Hawaii residents to finish up storm preparations.

President Trump is is issuing a new Executive Order today involving police reform. The order seeks to create a national database to track terminations, criminal convictions, and civil judgments against law enforcement officers for excessive use-of-force.

President Donald Trump and members of the Coronavirus Task Force hold a press briefing. In his address, the president called for gatherings of no more than 10 people, recommended schooling from home when possible and asked the public to avoid discretionary travel.

Sen. Mazie Hirono, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and 36 of their colleagues sent a letter to President Trump demanding he retract comments he made about being open to cutting earned benefits like Medicare or Social Security to pay for his tax giveaway to corporations.

An investigation is looking into the “potential suppression and alteration of scientific reports, documents, and communications by political employees” at the US Department of Agriculture, Sen. Mazie Hirono announced on Tuesday. 

The statement comes on the heels of comments made by US Senators Mazie Hirono and Brian Schatz of Hawaiʻi earlier this week.  She becomes the final member of the Hawaiʻi delegation to support impeachment proceedings for the president.

Sens. Mazie Hirono, Tina Smith, and 21 of their colleagues introduced legislation to secure back pay for the federal contractor employees who were impacted by the government shutdown. The bill, called the Fair Compensation for Low-Wage Contractor Employees Act, would provide back pay of up to $600 per paycheck for federal contractor employees who were […]

President Trump signed the Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary (OPEN) government data act into law Monday night. The new law, which Sens. Brian Schatz and Ben Sasse co-authored, will require federal agencies to publish public information in an open, machine-readable format online. According to Schatzʻs communications director, the act was created to make public information […]

Hawaiʻi Attorney General Russell A. Suzuki joined a coalition of 29 states and local governments in challenging the Trump Administration’s proposed rollbacks of environmental protections.

Hawaiʻi and ten other states assert that the monument reductions overstep presidential authority and upend the purpose of the Antiquities Act of 1906

Hawai‘i’s congressional delegation urged President Donald Trump to act swiftly on Gov. David Ige’s request for individual assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for residents harmed by Hurricane Lane. FEMA’s individual assistance programs help affected residents access critical federal funding and resources to recover. “Over the past five months, all four of Hawai‘i’s […]

The US Supreme Court today denied the Trump Administration’s motion to clarify an order issued by the court in Trump v Hawaiʻi relating to his travel ban.

Hawaiʻi federal district Judge Derrick K. Watson on Thursday afternoon issued an order in favor of Hawaiʻi in it’s challenge of the Trump travel ban.

Hawaiʻi filed a motion in Appeals court to review the scope of Trump’s travel and refugee bans after federal district court declined to grant Hawaii’s …